Earlier this month, Larry caught up with Lee Ranaldo from the iconic group Sonic Youth, who will return to Australia next month for the local premiere of his new work Hurricane Transcriptions (Last Night on Earth) exclusively at the Sydney Festival. We talk about the composition, his recent work with his band The Dust and…
He’ll be representing Aussie Hip Hop in a big way at next month’s Big Day Out festival, so we took some time out to chat to the man known as Pez to talk about the BDO, his recent appearance at the Queenscliff Festival and much more… read on! How did your performance at the Queenscliff…
As we all celebrate the holiday season, there are bundles of must see attractions to keep families busy around the country. One such destination is the Museum of Contemporary Art’s exhibition Yoko Ono: War is Over (If You Want It). It’s as much as look back at her life in work as it is a…
Pond has built themselves a reputation as one of Australia’s top live acts, and it’s not hard to see why, delivering a whole lot of noise on par with the depth of the album recordings. Support band Doctopus did a good job of warming up the crowd – with plenty of electric guitar, stage banter…
It’s time to enter the top twenty of our favourite tracks of 2013, as voted exclusively by the writers and photographers at the AU review. So strap yourself in, there is some damn fine music enclosed… 20. Jagwar Ma – Come Save Me 19. Savages – She Will Pete Dovgan: A post punk classic. Intense…
The time has come for us to reveal out top ten songs of the year… here we go! 10. Daft Punk & Pharrell Williams – Lose Yourself to Dance Chris Singh: The dream-team that began with ‘Get Lucky’ get even more rhythmic on ‘Lose Yourself to Dance,’ ending up with the funkiest modern disco jam…
Earlier today I caught up with Adrian Fitipaldes from Sydney five piece Northlane to talk about their massive year, their plans for 2014 – new music, Big Day Out and a world tour – and I find out what his favourite record of 2013 was. Listen on! The full list of announced Northlane dates for…
As we all start to look towards a week – maybe even two or more away from the office – it’s that time of year when many of us hit the road with our friends and families and get away from anything that reminds us of work. We head to the beaches, we head to…
We start the next batch of our top 40 tracks of 2013 with the band that won out the album of the year, LA trio Haim. If you want to see what kicked off the top 40 yesterday, you can have a look back at the first set of tracks HERE. 30. Haim – If…
Yesterday we brought an end to our top 40 albums countdown, and now it’s time for our top 40 tracks of the year! As with the albums, this list is voted on exclusively by the AU contributors, and the track simply must have been released on an album (or as a single) in 2013! So…
And here we have it… the top ten albums of 2013, kicking things off with Australia’s own Josh Pyke. If you’d like to look back on the rest of the top 40 albums, Part One is HERE, Part Two HERE and Part Three HERE. After you read the list, feel free to sound off on…
The Chicago sensation that is the Q Brothers are bringing their ‘remixed’ interpretation of Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello to the Sydney Festival for the 2014 edition! It’s innovative and provides a kickass new way of viewing one of the most famous tragedies – we get the lowdown from the JQ and GQ ahead of the festival….
It’s part three of our best of 2013 coverage and we’re now in the top 20 albums of 2013, kicking off with a band who impressed with their sophomore effort Not Art, Melbourne duo Big Scary. Click here to look back at parts ONE and TWO of our best albums of 2013 coverage… Chloe Webb:…
Keep checking back for more videos from the 2013 Festival of the Sun in Port Macquarie…
Earlier this month, I caught up with Reuben Styles from Canberra electronic duo Peking Duk and talked about their crazy New Years schedule, what we can expect from them on the Big Day Out tour, that time they broke the BDO’s Twitter account, a few loving words about Tame Impala, their new track with Laidback…
It’s day two of our best of 2013 coverage and we’re jumping right back into our favourite albums of 2013. Yesterday we delivered 40 to 31 and so today let’s hit into the top 30, kicking off with one of our favourite up-and-coming Australian groups, The Trouble with Templeton. Mairead Bilton-Gough: Another amazing breakthrough album,…
A man who knows how to please a crowd, I caught up with Harry Wayne “K.C.” Casey from legendary outfit KC and the Sunshine Band as he was at home in Miami, Florida. We kicked things off looking at the present, and I asked Harry about the latest record he was recording, before we talked…
John Goodridge has a chat to Drew Daniel of Matmos with occasional contributions from M.C. Schmidt. Coming to Australia for the Sydney Festival, the Matmos chaps talk about hitting Australia for the first time, recording sound, travelling and more. Hi Martin. This is John calling from the AU review in Australia. How’s the weather? Rainy,…
KEEP DISCOVERING! CLICK HERE TO LOOK BACK AT THE FIRST ROUND OF ARTISTS WE FEATURED IN THE BYRON BAY BLUESFEST DISCOVERY PROMOTION, AND ROUND TWO HERE. the AU review is proud to present the 25th annual Bluesfest in Byron Bay next Easter weekend. One aspect of the festival we love every year is the discovery…
KEEP DISCOVERING! CLICK HERE TO LOOK BACK AT THE FIRST ROUND OF ARTISTS WE FEATURED IN THE BYRON BAY BLUESFEST DISCOVERY PROMOTION. the AU review is proud to present the 25th annual Bluesfest in Byron Bay next Easter weekend. One aspect of the festival we love every year is the discovery of young and emerging…
And here we go again! As we bring 2013 to a close, it’s time for our annual celebration of the best in music from Australia and around the world with our top 40 albums of the year special series. We kick things off with a little known band from Portland called Typhoon as we throw…
Whilst half of Adelaide were across town seeing Bon Jovi, another demographic of music lover had made their way to the Adelaide Entertainment Centre to see one of popular musics most skilled songwriters perform. The venerable poet of the 1960s, Leonard Cohen returned to Adelaide for the final leg of his ‘Old Ideas World Tour’….
the AU review met New York based Sydney artist Ali Carter while she was in Australia before she returns stateside to record her debut album. She’s performing an unmissable once-off intimate show at The Newsagency in Marrickville, Sydney on December 12th. We talk about all this and more!
It was a bit of a “back to the old days” set as Passenger performed a FREE set today, back where he used to busk in Martin Place, when he was recording his record here in Australia. This special 25 minute set comes the night before he is to play in front of thousands of…
We talk to Nash Whalen, the keyboardist from acclaimed group Wooden Shjips about their latest record Back to Land, their European tour and tease the potential of them touring Australia in 2014 – as well as, of course, looking back at some of their past experiences here! Back to Land is available now!
the AU review talks to Lexxi Foxx and Satchel from Steel Panther and asks the all important question: what’s the secret to great hair? We also find out about the new Steel Panther record All You Can Eat which features the track “Glory Holes”. Naturally, the conversation becomes almost exclusively about Glory Holes. Filmed before…
Louis London are hitting their stride, showing maturity and promise beyond the early stages of their career. Following the resounding success of their first ever Pozible campaign, the band confidently launched their second EP The Big Deep with a string of local shows, finishing up in Melbourne. It seems that their hard work has paid off with latest singles “This…
